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June Online ebook Club – Keeper by Andrea Gillies

This month we are reading Keeper by Andrea Gillies for our Online ebook club, a memoir about Alzheimer’s disease. When writer and mother of three Andrea Gillies, finds that her parents-in-law are struggling to look after themselves, she invites them to move in. The newly extended family move to a Victorian house on the coast of Scotland where they hope to make a new life and Andrea attempts to work on her writing. The reality is not as simple as it seems. Andrea’s mother-in-law, Nancy, is in the middle stages of Alzheimers and Andrea takes the time to care for her. What follows is a steep learning curve for Andrea and her family. In this memoir Andrea describes the science behind the disease, her relationship with her mother-in-law and the frustration, exhaustion and occassional black comedy that comes with caring for a person suffering from Alzheimers.